April 2, 2012
A U.S. appeals court was asked on Friday to decide whether Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and TCW Asset Management Co. should have foreseen the housing market implosion that caused a $37 million loss for German state-owned Landesbank Baden-Wurttemberg. A three-judge …
March 21, 2012
Famed investment banking and securities firm Goldman Sachs is planning to get into the financial guarantee insurance market, according to a media report. Financial Times reported this week that Goldman Sachs had placed ads to hire New York-based staff for …
March 15, 2012
Goldman Sachs faced an unprecedented assault from one of its own on Wednesday after a banker published a withering resignation letter in the New York Times, calling the Wall Street titan a “toxic” place where managing directors referred to their …
March 5, 2012
Both A.M. Best and Standard & Poor’s issued bulletins following the announcement that Ariel Re was selling off its Bermuda-based reinsurance business to Arrow, a unit of investment Bank Goldman Sachs, and its trade credit and surety (C&S) operations, which …
March 2, 2012
Goldman Sachs Group said it is acquiring Ariel Reinsurance’s Bermuda-based insurance and reinsurance operations, which it will combine with its existing business underwritten through Lloyd’s Syndicate 1910. The purchase price of the transaction was not disclosed. The acquired business will …
August 17, 2011
Allstate Corp. is suing Goldman Sachs Group Inc., saying more than $122 million in mortgage-backed securities the insurance company bought beginning in 2006 were fraudulent. Allstate said in a statement that it filed the lawsuit in New York state court …
August 11, 2011
The U.S. regulator of credit unions this week sued Goldman Sachs & Co. for more than $491 million in damages over losses incurred by two failed credit unions that purchased mortgage-backed securities underwritten by the investment bank. The complaint filed …
July 8, 2011
Boston-based Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. and several of its subsidiaries have sued investment banker Goldman, Sachs & Co. for “making materially misleading statements and omissions” in a preferred stock offering of mortgage lender Freddie Mac in November 2007. The insurers …
April 11, 2011
Goldman Sachs has bought a 12.02 percent stake worth more than $900 million in China’s Taikang Life Insurance Co. Ltd, giving the Wall Street giant a foothold into the world’s biggest insurance market. Goldman’s long-overdue purchase could pave the way …
April 8, 2011
Goldman Sachs has bought a 12.02 percent stake worth more than $900 million in China’s Taikang Life Insurance Co Ltd, giving the Wall Street giant a foothold into the world’s biggest insurance market. Goldman’s long-overdue purchase could pave the way …